home

This website is for early childhood professionals to learn about professional development opportunities available through Region 5 ESC's Early Childhood Program Coordinators. For further information, contact Sharon Kruger, skruger@esc5.net or 409-951-1751. For registration information, contact Angie Touchstone, atouchstone@esc5.net or 409-951-1711.

= =

The Children’s Learning Institute’s CIRCLE Pre-school Foundations workshop is a two-day overview of effective research-based Prekindergarten

instructional strategies. This training is interactive and provides fun, hands-on activities that teachers can use in implementing the Texas Prekindergarten Curriculum Guidelines. In addition, teachers will learn strategies to use to differentiating instruction for your ESL students.

The following modules will be covered: Best Practices, ESL and PK, Language Development, Phonological Awareness, Letter Knowledge, Book Reading, Mathematics, Written Expression.

A CIRCLE Manual will be provided for each participant.

Click on the workshop number or www.esc5.net to register for the workshop or click on #[|166899] Presenter: Sharon Kruger Tuesdays, Oct. 3 and 10, 2017 Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Early Bird Registration and deadline to receive a CIRCLE manual at the training register by: September 20, 2017

For more information, please contact: Angie Touchstone at atouchstone@esc5.net or 409-951-1711

I received this Aug. 30, 2017. I will leave it on this site as long as it is relevant.
 * || [[image:https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/rf_JKRPOxz1oK-zgJto88WJqxzgBqjTNwrL2jvloFQyFSPVBXzRMBxoTcKTluGgsc3qM7qa_46valE9gYJuvm9DYKuVkr7CaaakbBYpBMOwJCxvOYPXCUFCvrbfc6MdsgnEE4IxvEJwy5Qc=s0-d-e1-ft#http://files.constantcontact.com/de835978001/dd4d0953-c316-4a41-9274-e222dc5f4127.jpg width="250" align="center" caption="Texas AEYC"]] ||  ||


 * Dear Friends and Family of the Early Childhood Community,

Like many of you, we have either sat in front of our televisions watching the weather or have been glued to our smartphones, scrolling through social media for the latest news out of Southeast Texas for the past 5 days, knowing what was happening was out of our control and praying everyone was safe. It has been a long few days for those of us in Texas and across the country who have family and friends affected by the storm.

As the winds started to calm and the rain continued to fall, the images began to emerge: images of homes and buildings torn apart, of boats on dry land, of water everywhere, of businesses swallowed by water, and of families and children trapped in their own homes.

As heartbreaking as the images and stories are, we have also seen and heard stories of neighbors helping neighbors, friends opening their homes, of strangers coming to the rescue across our great state. And those stories are just beginning.


 * So how can we help?**

As an Early Childhood Community, our focus is on the children affected by the storms. We are worried and wondering how we can help them--how we can get their lives back to normal. Like all of the other businesses in Southeast Texas, child care programs are affected too. We are still learning exactly how many, we know the need will be great. With that in mind, TXAEYC has created an account to take monetary donations to help assist early childhood programs repair, replace, or rebuild their programs so Donate Today! To find out more ways to help you can visit our website. 100% of the donations received by TXAEYC will go to help programs affected by Hurricane Harvey.

Child Care Licensing is also working to identify operations that are impacted. If your program evacuated, relocated, or your program sustained damage causing it to be unsafe in any way then please complete the  Emergency Response Survey to provide details about how your child care operation is impacted. You may also provide this information to DFPS by calling the DFPS abuse or neglect hotline at 1-800-252-5400. ||


 * As we recover may we continue to work together for Texas' youngest citizens!

Sincerely,

Racquel Washington TXAEYC President

Kim Kofron Executive Director ||

= = = =

For a page with information on websites that offer freebies you can use in your classroom go to: freebies